2007 年湖南高考英语真题及答案
第一部分 听力(共三节,满分 30 分)
第一节(共 5 小题,满分 7.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话,每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。
听完每段对话后,你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一
遍。
1. When will the two speakers leave if they get cheaper tickets?’
A. On Tuesday.
B. On Thursday
C. On Friday
2. What is the probably relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife
B. Passenger and driver
C. Salesgirl and
customer
3. What does the man imply?
A. He got help from the woman.
C. He worked hard for his composition
4. What will the woman do in the morning?
B. He needed more time to study
A. See Lisa off
B. Go to the zoo
C. Deal with an e-mail
5. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A . In a bus
B. In an office
C. In a phone box
第二节 (共 12 小题,满分 18 分)
听下面 4 段对话。每段对话后有几个小题,从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中,选出最佳选
项,听每段对话前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题 5 秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出 5
秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段对话,回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。
6. Where will the man have his dinner?
A. At Golden Pond Restaurant
C. At Moon River Restaurant
7. What do we know about the man?
A. He wants to eat beef
C. prefers to wear a jacket and tie
B. At Black Forest Restaurant
B. He likes to have dinner late
听下面一段对话,回答第 8 至第 10 三个小题。
8. How does the man feel about the delay of his flight?
A. Calm
B. Glad
C. Angry
9. Which is the right boarding gate for the man?
A. Gate 5
B. Gate 20
C. Gate 38
A. At 3:30 p.m.
10. When will the plane probably take off?
B. At 3:40 p.m.
听下面一段对话,回答第 11 至第 13 三个小题。
11. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
C. At 3:50 p.m.
A. Eco-tours
B. Popular sports
C. Famous countries
12. Which activity in the USA in introduced in the dialogue?
A. Mountain-climbing
B. River-rafting
C. Bird-watching
13. How many countries are mentioned in the dialogue?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
听下面一段对话,回答第 14 至第 17 四个小题。
14. Why does the man ask the woman for help?
A. He has to read a report
C. He has to wait for a call
15. What does the man ask the woman to do?
B. He has to write a report
A. Buy some food
B. Make tomato soup
C. Bring back the café
16. Which of the following is suggested by the woman?
A. A pie
B. A salad
C. A sandwich
17. What does the woman think of the man?
A. Lazy
B. Greedy
C. Curious
第三节(共 3 小题,满分 4.5 分)
听下面一段材料,将第 18 至第 20 三个小题的信息补充完整,每个小题不超过三个单词。 听
材料前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每个小题 5 秒钟; 听完后,各小题将给出 15 秒钟的作
答时间。本材料读两遍。
Greenwood 18. _________________
To: Students of Grades 19. ________________
For: Two weeks
Study and play with top artists!
20.____________________ every night!
Enjoy your life in greenwoods!
第二部分 英语知识运用
第一节 单项填空 (共 15 小题, 满分 15 分)
从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. Reality is not the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be,
_________ the way they actually are.
A. as
B. or
C. but
C. and
22. __________ the silence for the pauses, we could hear each other’s breathing
and could almost bear our own heartbeats.
A. In
B. For
C. Under
D. Between
23. Polar bears live mostly on ________ sea ice, which they use as _______ platform
for hunting seals.
A. a; a
B. a; the
C. 不填; a
D. the; 不填
24. The biggest problem for most plants, which ________ just get up and run away
when threatened, is that animals like to eat them.
A. shan’t
B. can’t
C. needn’t
D. mustn’t
25. As the years passed, many occasions—birthdays, awards, graduations—________
with Dad’s flowers.
A. are marked
B. were marked
C. have marked
D. had
marked
26. It’s hard for him playing against me. I’ve got nothing to play for, but for
him, he needs to win so ________.
A. far
B. well
C. little
D. badly
27. To save class time, our teacher has ________ students do half of the exercise
in class and complete the other half for homework.
A. us
C. our
B. we
D. ours
28. Having checked the doors were closed , and _________ all the lights were off,
the boy opened the door to his bedroom.
A. why
B. that
C. when
D. where
29. As the light turned green, I stood for a moment, not _________, and asked myself
what I was going to do.
A. moved
B moving
C. to move
D. being moved
30. We live day by day, but in the great things, the time of days and weeks _________
so small that a day is unimportant.
A. is
B. are
C. has been
D. have been
31. Cathy is taking notes of the grammatical rules in class at Sunshine School, where
she ________ English for a year.
A. studies
B. studied
C. is studying
D. has been
studying
32. By serving others, a person focuses on someone other than himself or herself,
___________ can be very eye-opening and rewarding.
A. who
B. which
C. what
D. that
33. Most birds find it safe to sleep in the trees, but ________ they have eggs or
young chicks, they don’t use a nest.
A. why
B. how
C. unless
D. where
34. “Things _________ never come again!” I couldn’t help talking to myself.
D. have lost
C. to lose
B. losing
A. lost
35. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is _________ wisdom
in this: “Love me, love my book.”
A. some
B. much
C. more
D. most
第二节 完形填空 (共 20 小题, 满分 30 分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从第 36 至第 55 小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选
出最佳选项。
When I was young, my parents ran a snack bar in our small town.
One evening in early April, my mother told me to fill in at the snack bar
a worker who had the flu. I told her I would mess it up,
at the bar before. I
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I had never worked
that instead of making money, I would end up owing it.
, you won’t get much business until
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“You can do it,” said my mother, “ 39
lunch.”
“But I’ll never remember the orders, and I’m no good
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money. Please,
Mom, don’t
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me.
“Then I’ll help you,” she said.
I shrugged my shoulders. I thought my mother’s
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was a bad one, but I
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When I got to the bar the next day, I found my mother was
. Because the
weather that day was rainy and cold, people wanted hot snacks and drinks.
,
I was really slow at taking the orders and making change. The line of people grew,
and everybody seemed
a
cup into pieces. What a mess! Then my mother came to
me, and she also showed
me how to make
. If someone gave me $ 5 for something that cost $ 3.25, I handed
over
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quarters and a dollar and said, “75 cents makes four dollars, plus one dollar
, I was so nervous that my hands shook, and I
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makes five.” Things went more
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after that.
By the end of the day, I could remember orders,
quickly with a smile. I was even a little
up business. My mother said she was proud of me, and when she
at the snack bar again next year, I did not even shrug. I was too busy
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the bill, and make change
when the sun came out and dried
that I work
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the restaurant I would open one day.
A. to
A. because
A. promised
A. Therefore
A. of
A. blame
A. idea
A. guessed
A. angry
A. At least
A. surprised
A. damaged
A. scold
A. money
A. two
A. smoothly
A. turn in
A. discouraged
A. thought
A. imagining
B. for
B. though
B. noticed
B. However
B. on
B. fool
B. bar
B. obeyed
B. sad
B. At last
B. impolite
B. destroyed
B. help
B. lunch
B. three
B. fairly
B. count out
B. disturbed
B. stated
B. preparing
C. after
C. until
C. worried
C. Besides
C. about
C. frighten
C. day
C. begged
C. worry
C. At most
C. pleased
C. broke
C. beat
C. coffee
C. four
C. simply
C. take over
C. disappointed
C. announced
C. examining
D. over
D. while
D. hoped
D. Yet
D. with
D. make
D. answer
D. admitted
D. ashamed
D. At first
D. impatient
D. ruined
D. save
D. change
D. five
D. conveniently
D. add up
D. distrusted
D. suggested
D. describing
第三部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分 40 分)
第一节 选择题(共 17 小题, 满分 34 分)
A
In June, 2007, a group of students from eight high schools in Winnipeg, the capital
of Canada’s Manitoba province, will begin test-launching (试发射) a satellite the
size of a Rubik’s cube.
The one-kilogram Win-Cub satellite, named for its home city and its shape, will
be put into low orbit. Once in space, it can perform for a few months or up to several
years, communicating information that could help find the signs of earthquakes.
There are 80 similar satellite projects worldwide, but this is the first
high-school based program of its kind in Canada. 30 Manitoba high school students
are having a hand in designing and building the satellite, in cooperation with
aerospace (航空航天的) experts and 10 students from the University of Manitoba, and
with support from two other organizations.
The Win-Cube project is not something that goes on a piece of paper; it is
real-world engineering, allowing high school students to have an opportunity to
learn more about the exciting world of engineering through their participation in
this challenging program. It is also taken as a wonderful example of the unique
partnerships within Manitoba. Designing, building and launching a satellite with
high-school participation will bring this world-class educational project into
reality and Manitoba closer to space.
“These Manitoba high school students deserve congratulations for their
enthusiasm, innovation (创新), and a strong love for discovery,” said Education,
Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjomson. “We want to make science more relevant
(相关的), interesting and attractive to high school students by showing them how
classroom studies can relate to practical experience in the workplace or, in this
case, in space,” Bjomson added.
The Win-Cube program is mainly named at inspiring a strong desire for discovery
on the part of the students. It also shows Manitoba’s devotion to research and
innovation and the development of a skilled workforce—all important drivers of
knowledge-based economic growth.
56. According to the passage, the Win-Cube satellite is _________.
A. named after Manitoba and its shape
B. intended for
international communication
C. designed like a Rubik’s cube both in shape and size
D. challenged by university students around the world
57. According to Mr. Bjomson, ___________.
A. those Manitoba high school students are worth praising
B. the study of space can be practically made in classrooms
C. Manitoba high schools are famous for the study of space
D. scientific research is too far away from high school students
58. The primary purpose of the project is to _________.
A. find the early signs of earthquakes
C. help high school students study real-world engineering
D. inspire a strong desire for discovery among the students
B. relate studies to practical
59. The best title for this passage may be ________.
A. Manitoba School
D. Satellite Launching
B. Win-Cube Program
C. Space Co-operation
B
Welcome to my Message Board!
Mr.
Handsome
2007-5-12
6: 34 AM
Mr.
Edwards
2007-5-12
9: 40 AM
Ms. Weir
2007-5-12
11:35 AM
Mr.
Crockatt
2007-5-12
4:38 PM
Subject: Slimming down classics?
Orion Books, which decides there is a market in creating cut-down
classics (经典著作), is slimming down some novels by such great writers
as L. Tolstoy, M. Mitchell and C. Bronte. Now, each of them has been
whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting 30 to 40 pages per cent of
original, with words, sentences, paragraphs and, in a few cases, chapters
removed. The first six shortened editions, all priced at £6.99 and
advertised as great reads “in half the time”, will go on sale next
month, with plans for 50 to 100 more to follow. The publishing house
believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.
Well, I’m publisher of Orion Group. Thanks for your attention, Mr.
Handsome.
I must say, the idea developed from a game of “shame” in my office.
Each of us was required to confess (承认) to the most embarrassing blanks
in his or her reading. I admitted that I had never read Anna Karenina
and tried but failed to get through Gone with the Wind several times.
One of my colleagues acknowledged skipping (跳读) Jane Eyre. We realized
that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never
were going to read these ones.
As a leading publishing house, we are trying to make classics
convenient for readers but it’s not as if we’re withdrawing the
original versions. They are still there if you want to read them.
I’m director of the online bookclub www.lovereading.co.uk
Mr. Edwards, I think your shortened editions is a breath of fresh
air. I’m guilty of never having read AnnaKarenina, because it’s just
so long. I’d much rather read two 300-page books than one 600-page book.
I am looking forward to more shortened classics!
I’m from the London independent bookshop Corckatt & Powell.
In my opinion, the practice is completely ridiculous. How can you edit
the classics? I’m afraid reading some of these book is hard work, and
that is why you have to develop as a reader. If people don’t have time
to read Anna Karenina, then fine. But don’t read a shortened version
and kid yourself it’s the real thing.
60. According to the message board, Orion Books ___________.
A. opposes the reading of original classics
B. is embarrassed for
cutting down classics
C. thinks cut-down classics have a bright future
D. is cautions in its
decision to cut down classics
61. In Mr. Edwards’ opinion, Orion Group is shortening classics to _________.
A. make them easier to read
B. meet a large demand in the
market
C. increase the sales of literary books
D. compete with their
original versions
62. By describing the shortened classics as “a breath of fresh air”, Ms. Weir
________.
A. speaks highly of the cut-down classics
B. shows her love for
original classics
C. feels guilty of not reading the classics
D. disapprove of
shortening the classics
63. Mr. Crockatt seems to imply that _________.
A. reading the classic works is a confusing attempt
B. shortening the classics does harm to the original
C. publishing the cut-down classics is a difficult job
D. editing the classic works satisfies children’s needs
C
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph,
Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called
“found photographs”—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的)
prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from
a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes
“basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs,
postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups
photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars;
dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion
(捍卫) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night
in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷)
an angry note intended for some else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The
note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features
found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of
the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose
art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his
horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s
anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found
photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own
photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze
in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they
mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?
64. The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.
A. remind readers of found photographs
B. advise reader to start a
new kind of business
C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa
D. show readers the value
of found photographs
65. According to the passage, Joachim Schmid _________.
A. is fond of collecting family life photographs
B. found a complaining
not under his car wiper
C. is working for several self-published magazines
D. wondered at the artistic nature of found photographs
66. The underlined word “them” in Para 4 refers to __________.
A. the readers
D. the self-published magazines
B. the editors
C. the found photographs
67. By asking a series of questions in Para 5, the author mainly intends to indicate
that ________.
A. memory of the past is very important to people
B. found photographs allow people to think freely
C. the back-story of found photographs is puzzling
D. the real value of found photographs is questionable
68. The author’s attitude towards found photographs can be described as _________.
D. satisfied
C. optimistic
A. critical
B. doubtful
D
One of our biggest fears nowadays is that our kids might some day get lost in
a “sea of technology” rather than experiencing the natural world. Fear-producing
TV and computer games are leading to a serious disconnect between kids and the great
outdoors, which will changes the wild places of the world, its creatures and human
health for the worse, unless adults get working on child’s play.
Each of us has a place in nature we go sometimes, even if it was torn down. We
cannot be the last generation to have that place. At this rate, kids who miss the
sense of wonder outdoors will not grow up to be protectors of natural landscapes.
“If the decline in parks use continues across North America, who will defend parks
against encroachment (蚕食)?” asks Richard Louv, author of LastChildintheWoods.
Without having a nature experience, kids, can turn out just fine, but they are
missing out a huge enrichment of their lives. That applies to everything from their
physical health and mental health, to stress levels, creativity and cognitive (认
知 的 ) skills. Experts predict modern kids will have poorer health than their
parents—and they say a lack of outside play is surely part of it; research suggests
that kids do better academically in schools with a nature component and that play
in nature fosters (培养) leadership by the smartest, not by the toughest. Even a
tiny outdoor experience can create wonder in a child. The three-year-old turning
over his first rock realizes he is not alone in the world. A clump of trees on the
roadside can be the whole universe in his eyes. We really need to value that more.
Kids are not to blame. They are over-protected and frightened. It is dangerous
out there from time to time, but repetitive stress from computers is replacing
breaking an arm as a childhood rite(仪式)of passage.
Everyone, from developers, to schools and outdoorsy citizens, should help regain
for our kids some of the freedom and joy of exploring, taking friendship in fields
and woods that cement (增强) love, respect and need for landscape. As parents, we
should devote some of our energies to taking our kids into nature. This could yet
be our greatest cause.